Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

So tenacious were our forefathers of their rights and liberties that the preamble to the Mutiny Act declares, that a standing army is unconstitutional and illegal; but so relaxed are their successors in principles of freedom, that Mr. Dundas ventures to stand forward and propose a statute, which declares that "arbitrary power is necessary to give energy, vigour, and dispatch to Government." Good Heaven! If the late Lord Chatham was alive, how the thunder of his eloquence would pour forth its whole powers against such proceedings.

The Ministerialists puff away their patrons, under an idea that part of the national debt is to be paid off this year; but if that should be the case, what relief would the country receive, when the consequence must be a loan exceeding the debt paid off. This mode of relieving us, may be compared to two buckets in a draw-well, one of which empties while the other fills -- both being set in motion by the same hand.

The surplus of above 900,000l. stated by the Committee of Finance, is the excess of the old taxes above the purposes to which they were appropriated; but on the war taxes, there is a deficiency of one million three hundred and eighty thousand pounds: so on the whole revenue there is actually a deficiency of four hundred and sixty thousand pounds, which the year 1786 must be liable for.